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Neuroofibromatosis Research Papers

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Neurofibromatosis is known to be a very dangerous and deadly disease. Worldwide, neurofibromatosis, type one and two (commonly known as NF1 or NF2) affects over two million people. Each year about one in 3500 people are diagnosed with NF. About 40-50 percent of those people have NF one or two because of a genetic mutation tied to the arm of the 17 chromosome. Base pair 29,603,556 to 29,698,600. People with NF have a slightly smaller life expectancy rate than somebody without NF. But, their life consists of physical therapy and surgeries. First, NF has many different symptoms and causes. NF1 causes skin features such as freckling all over the body, toumbers all over the body including the brain, bone abnormalities, nerve and tissue damage. NF2 causes all of the NF1 symptoms but there are only toumbers in the central nervous system. A mutation at the 17th chromosome causes this disorder. 50% of children of NF carriers will get the disease. Neurofibromatosis can also cause extreme learning disabilities. …show more content…

NF is diagnosed by a doctor shining a lamp on your skin to look for cafe au lait spots. Also genetic history can determine if a person has NF or does not. NF can be treated by annual eye examinations, annual checkups, and surgery to remove toumbers, chemotherapy, and finally radiation

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